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The Platte Valley Review Volumes 31-32 are international journals of Poetry, Prose, Photography, Artwork, Environmental and EcoCritical Essay.
Volumes 31-32 are edited by A. A. Hedge Coke, Robert Ficociello, & Travis Hedge Coke.
The UNK Reynolds Chair and Creative Writing Emphasis hosts the Reynolds Review, Reynolds Reading Series and the Honoring the Sandhill Crane Migration Literary Retreat and Festival. Sandhill Cranes migrate to their spring apex just outside Kearney, Nebraska annually in March. This largest migration of any earthly species has occurred an estimated 45 to 60 million years. The Kearney area apex numbers 600,000 arriving birds. Traditionally, numerous Indigenous philosophies and languages, including written, were influenced by these cranes over thousands and thousands of generations. UNK’s English and Creative Writing disciplines honor this migration, pattern of life and landscape, and tribute the literary and philosophical grace given our geographic home and history by this impressive seasonal visitation. In 2009-2011, we collaboratively dedicate Platte Valley Review editions to the migration and forces of nature.
UNK offers three degrees in writing:
Bachelor of Arts English Major, Writing Emphasis. http://aaunk.unk.edu/catalogs/current/ba/baengwi.asp
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Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Screenwriting, Nonfiction.
UNK Core Writing Faculty includes: Susanne Bloomfield, A. B. Emrys, Robert Ficociello, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Sam Umland
Recent UNK Reynolds Series & Sandhill Crane Fest visiting writers include:
Joy Harjo, Miles Waggener, Patricia Smith, Terese Svoboda, Robert Olen Butler, Kwame Dawes, Natalie Diaz, James Riding In, Cris Apache, Jonathan Skinner, Natasha Trethewey, Jon Davis, Billy Collins, Bret Lott, Fred Arroyo, Quincy Troupe, Margaret Porter Troupe, Wang Ping, LeAnne Howe, Sherwin Bitsui, Greg Kosmicki, Greg Kuzma, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Lise Erdrich, Ofelia Zepeda, Marvin Bell, Matthew Shenoda, Eddie Chuculate, Stephen Graham Jones, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Michael Dumanis, Anne Waldman, Arthur Sze, Carol Moldaw, Laura Tohe, Fredy Chicangana, Jan Beatty, Linda Hogan, Cristina Eisenberg, Sam Hamill, James Thomas Stevens, Janet McAdams, Nancy Morejon, Hugo Jamioy, Aty Jeney, Diane Glancy, Kate Gale, Makalani Bandele, Glenn North, Tim Black, and Cindy Black, Rick Marlatt, Sam Stecher, Rex Walton, Don Welch...
Language and Migration
Platte Valley Review Spring 2010 publication is themed Language and Migration. The 2009-2011 Platte Valley Review is edited by Allison Hedge Coke, Robert Ficociello, and Travis Hedge Coke. Distinguished UNK Sandhill Crane Literary Fellows, including Wang Ping, Sherwin Bitsui, Cristina Eisenberg and LeAnne Howe; Reynolds Readers, Diane Glancy & Kate Gale, Publisher Red Hen Press; and Distinguished Guests, including SD Poet Laureate David Allen Evans & Greg Kosmicki, Publisher Backwaters Press, Pam Uschuck and Simmons Buntin juried and contributed to these editions.
Senior Editor, A. A. Hedge Coke.
Managing Editor, A. A. Hedge Coke.
Associate Editor, Travis Hedge Coke.
Art Editor, Travis Hedge Coke.
Intern Editors, Carla Frisch, Graphic Design Major,
& Steve Warren, Graduate Assistant, Creative Writing.
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Cover Photo, Jason Jilg & Design, Travis Hedge Coke.
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Language and Migration Edition (Spring) Volume 31 No. 1
Table of Contents
Wang Ping Great Callings of the Crane – Poetry
Masthead
Front Matter
Dedication page
Tributes and Special Selections
Bret Lott - Tribute
3. Jack Myers – Poetry
Intimacies of Cleaning
Mariscos
Going Away Party
Cholangiocarcinoma
My Top Ten Lists
Autumn on Cape Fear
10. Bernice McFadden – Fiction
Chapter 7, Glorious
15. Marvin Bell – Poetry
My Chicago Anarchist
Street Kid
The Quality of Moot
18. Quincy Troupe – Poetry
A Hard Quick Rain Storm in Manhattan
“Mad Max” Wrecked Cargo Ship off the coast of Gosier, Guadeloupe
22. Wang Ping – Poetry/Prose
The ones in the brain
Morning Cloud, Evening Rain
Solstice in Lhasa
32. Quincy Troupe – Poetry
An Art of Lost Faith
Sounds of New York City from Harlem, 116th & 7th Avenue
42. Naomi Shihab Nye – Prose
What the Sandhill Cranes Did to Me
46. Sam Hamill – Poetry
True Peace
Eyes Wide Open
50. Carol Moldaw – Poetry
Omens
Canning in Chimayo
Twister
53. Arthur Sze – Poetry
Field Notes
54. Lee Ann Roripaugh – Poetry
THE PLANET OF DANDAR
56. Diane Glancy – Poetry
The Naming of Barbed Wire
No More Stories Told by the Voice
58. Fredy Romeiro Campo Chicangana – Poetry
Tr. Cristina Eisenberg
DANZA DE AMOR / DANCE OF LOVE
59. Kate Gale – Poetry
Casanova and the Aphrodite of the Modern World
Life outside the Glass
61. Anne Waldman – Poetry
Welcome to the Anthropocene
66. Sherwin Bitsui – Poetry
Flood Song, excerpt
72. Ted Kooser – Poetry
WALL SWITCH
OUR MEMORIES
BIRTHDAY CANDLES
UPRIGHT PIANO
74. Don Welch – Poetry
A REQUIEM FOR A TEACHER
WHITE CRANES IN SPRING
76. Laura Tohe – Poetry
MAP SONGS
78. Peggy Shumaker – Poetry
ATTU, 1942
THE LANDSCAPE OF LONGING
I WONDER WHO
81. Seamus Cashman – Poetry
The Door
Christmas snow ‘almost definite’
The beach is flat / Trá fíor cothrom atá anseo
85. Jan Beatty – Poetry
The Hypotenuse of the Triangle of Work
Approaching Denver/Union Station
Ancestry: Derivation
89. Wang Xiaoni – Poetry Translation
Tr. Wang Ping and Alex Lemon
Betraying Cloth
Sitting on the Steps in the Afternoon
91. Zhai Yongming – Poetry Translation
Tr. Wang Ping & Lewis Warsh
Report on a Child Prostitute
93. Yu Yu – Poetry
Tr. Wang Ping
因为我爱你 / Because I Love You
95. Jack Hirschman – Poetry
THE AUTOZOBOP PASSPORT ARCANE
99. Rachel Beauvoir and Didier Dominique – Songs-Translation
Tr. Boadiba and Jack Hirschman
excerpt from SAVALOU E, or A WORD TO THE WISE (IS ENOUGH)
106. Nancy Morejón – Poetry
Tr. Cristina Eisenberg
Obsidiana / Obsidian
VILMA EN JUNIO / Vilma In June
UN GATO PEQUEÑO A MI PUERTA / A Small Cat At My Door
109. Poetry
110. Lyn Lifshin – Poetry
I THINK OF MY GRANDFATHER
FROM THE FIRST WEEKS IN NEW YORK, IF MY GRANDFATHER COULD HAVE WRITTEN A POSTCARD
IF MY GRANDMOTHER COULD HAVE WRITTEN A POSTCARD TO THE SISTER LEFT BEHIND
IF MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD HAVE WRITTEN A POST CARD TO ODESSA
FROM THE FIRST WEEKS IN NEW YORK, IF MY GRANDFATHER COULD HAVE WRITTEN A POSTCARD
MY FATHER TELLS US ABOUT LEAVING VILNIUS
115. Steve Langan – Poetry
A Theory of Home
116. Rick Marlatt – Poetry
Crane Song
Gravity
118. James Engelhardt – Poetry
Reversing Houses
Postage Stamp Suburb
120. Terry Blackhawk – Poetry
INTO THE CANOPY
MEDITATION IN GREEN
123. Kathleen Hellen – Poetry
Translation.2
124. Hillary Joubert – Poetry
The Old Place
125. Allison Smythe – Poetry
Laws of Physics
On Sight
127. Lesley Wheeler – Poetry
VRONHILL STREET IN LIVERPOOL 8
130. Twyla Hansen – Poetry
MY HUSAND’S GRANDMOTHER WORKED FOR WILLA CATHER
131. Adrian Castro – Poetry
Handling Destiny: The Red Eyes of History
136. Molly L. O’Dell – Poetry
Sallying
137. dg okpik – Poetry
Salt Cedar and Kokonee at Sustina River
138. Alberto Rios – Poetry
The Migration of the Bird Away From Us
Leaves and Leaves
142. Kassandra Montag – Poetry
Widow
143. John Willson – Poetry
Sign
144. David Cheezem – Poetry
excerpt from Letters to Lilly
149. Susan Richardson – Poetry
Snow Geese Solstice
150. Fiction
151. Janet McAdams – Fiction
The Dog People
155. Lolita Hernandez – Fiction
Arrivals and Departures
novel excerpt from Felipe and Dhal in Search of the Garden of Love
164. Melissa Pritchard – Fiction
Swimming With Vivaldi
168. Elizabeth Kate Switaj – Fiction
The Hill on the Border
170. Dinh Vong – Fiction
Heavyweight
180. Diane Lefer – Fiction
Eydie Gorme Was a Little Spanish Girl
193. Charles Waugh – Fiction
The Folly of Crows
194. Jerry D. Mathes II – Fiction
In the River’s Mouth
207. Creative Nonfiction
208. Bret Lott – Nonfiction
On my Desk
209. Cristina Eisenberg – Nonfiction
Hegira: Voices on the Wind
215. Susan J. Tweit – Nonfiction
Excerpt from The San Luis Valley: Sand Dunes and Sandhill Cranes
219. Benjamin Vogt – Nonfiction
Some Sense of Home
222. Michele Leavitt – Nonfiction
Spiral, Exhale, Run
224. Catherine Reid – Nonfiction
Autumn Sloshing
227. Ecocritical
228. Doreen Pfost – Ecocritical
Caught Up in a Wind-borne River
241. Valerie Vierk – Ecocritical
The Migration of Purple Martins--How Many Wing Beats to Brazil?
Pushcart Nominations Volume 31 No. 1 : Marvin Bell, Quincy Troupe, Wang Ping.
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